ARTHUR ALLAN: CITY HALL

Arthur Allan through a series of actions will investigate the unoccupied open space of San Francisco civic buildings. In this series of interactions the pair will make use of the banal and the mundane, producing video works and sculptures that investigate the civic aesthetic and its function.

Crossing the Rubicon (Secret Societies) Promo

Bohemian Grove edit for group show curated by Kottie Paloma at JAS Gallery.

Left Behind walk Feb 2011

Chris Sollars takes one of his afternoon walks making public sculptures with found trash and debris on the streets of his San Francisco Mission neighborhood. Sollars documents the sculptures with photos and leaves them behind.

Trash Rain

Bag of collected neighborhood trashthrown out my 2nd story window. Trash Rain is a video a part of PlayFill a multimedia installation for the exhibition Trash at the new children's museum of San Diego.

Pile of Trash San Diego

Narrative following anthropomorphic Trash from Mirmar Landfill, through downtown San Diego to Balboa Park the former landfill where they encounter a group of children. Pile of Trash San Diego is a video a part of PlayFill a multimedia installation for the exhibition Trash at the new children's museum of San Diego.

déjeuner sur la barbe

déjeuner sur la barbe (to lunch on the beard ) 2011
a new video by Chris Sollars & Jerome Waag

Hairy - 3 channel video

Hairy Sculpture material becomes focus for the 3 Channel Videos that get ruptured. The rupture simulates the instantaneous shift / change that happens with a cut of Hair, Video, or Wood through quick bursts of close-ups and sound. Features: Hair Grain, Beard Rub, Beard Object, Hair Ball, Hair Lay, and Shave.

Beard Object

Pulling objects out of my beard.

Beard Rub

Extreme Close Ups of rubbing my beard on objects and surfaces around the home.

Shave

Shaving my beard with a razor sharp axe in front of a redwood tree.

Hair Lay

Laying my hair over objects around my neighborhood.

Mishaps

Sollars investigates Failure through a multi-media installation of Mis-haps, consisting of a fleece security blanket to wear while they watch a compilation of short video mistakes.

Whiskey Waxing Promo

Come wax your whiskers and sip whiskey.
Whiskey Waxing is a two part event by artist Chris Sollars in conjunction with Comstock Saloon and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. A Twist of the Stache to San Francisco's Past.

Whiskey Waxing @YBCA

Come wax your whiskers and sip whiskey.
Whiskey Waxing is a two part event by artist Chris Sollars in conjunction with Comstock Saloon and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. A Twist of the Stache to San Francisco's Past.

ARTHUR ALLAN:
Public Service Announcement for
Yerba Buena Gardens

ARTHUR ALLAN was recently commissioned to do a Public Service Announcement for Yerba Buena Gardens. The announcement aired this past weekend at an event held in the gardens and was attended by Mayor Gavin Newsom.

Home on the Range

In conjunction with Alison Pebworth's solo exhibition
Other Possibilities of drawings.

Glitter Box Promo

Chris Sollars survey of works and 56 seconds promo for show
cut to Quadrospazzed by Thee Oh Sees off their album The Master's Bedroom Is Worth Spending A Night In.

Colon Pattern Loop

Crash zooms of patterns from Ian's home and clothes with Thee Oh Sees sound remix.

Ian's LP Portrait

Portrait of Ian Colon Glitterbox curator through portraits in his LP collection.

Trouble Everyday Promo

BP Spin

British Petroleum green sun spinning.

Iraq Blackout

Iraq black shape held up and filmed around San Francisco simultaneous and edited to President Obama's Iraq withdrawl speech.

ri-FLEKT install

Sollars created a series of works juxtaposing the interior and exterior of WE, utilizing the Bus stop and neighborhood for a series of interventions, sculptures and videos.

ri-FLEKT promo

Rorschach Sleeper

Reflected video of man sleeping.

Trouble Everyday 2010

Frank Zappa's 1966 song Trouble Everyday with the Mothers of Invention remixed for 2010.

667Shotwell Summer Show Promo

2010 Summer residents Neet and Brian Moran present works and the Owl Cave Book Store in conjunction with the 667Shotwell video archive

ARTHUR ALLAN Promo

Arthur (Brion Nudah Rosch) and Allan (Chris Sollars) promo for 667Shotwell Show.

ARTHUR ALLAN Lunch

Arthur (Brion Nudah Rosch) and Allan (Chris Sollars) TV on Table lunch performance with kitty voices, filmed at Arthur's, shown at Allan's kitchen table.

Behind, Beside, Inside & Videos from ARTHUR ALLAN

Hallway Projects for ARTHUR ALLAN
at 667Shotwell performances by Allan at Arthur's,
Re-Projection of Arthur's Living space at Allan's.

Bird Trap

Brautigan

Dead Dadullah

descandent un escalier

18 minute short in collaboration with Tomas Phillips

green bucket

MUMBAI SF

MUMBAI SanFrancisco is a 13 minute documentary short filmed one week after the Mumbai terrorist attacks from the perspective of Indians living in San Francisco.

OPENfuture: Spinning Marinetti's WheelsChris Sollars Jerome Waag Matt Volla

Event: October 17, 2009
SFMOMA Sanfrancisco, CA
video projections

Pipe Roll

Pipe North by Northwest

Sheet

Tarp

Time in a Bottle

Wedding Fall

C RED BLUE J
An experimental documentary feature that illustrates the complications of division during the 2004 Presidential election as it is manifested in one family. Director Chris Sollars, an artist living and working in San Francisco sets out to try and bridge the political gaps in his own family between a younger sister who works for the Bush Administration, a Born Again Christian father, and Lesbian mother. 79 min www.credbluej.com
Watch C RED BLUE J on VIMEO!

C RED BLUE J Trailer #1

C RED BLUE J Trailer #2
La Chinoise Remix

Big Tree Little Tree Storyboard

Protest Sign Screen Tests

Revolution 08

Baghead Eyerack

Tiger Wack

Chinatown Los Angeles, CA
In collaboration with Kottie Paloma and Archie Mckay

Artist Commercials

Drain

Jar / Drain

Kimono News
Tokyo Japan

In collaboration with Charlie Canfield, Yoshinori Niwa, and others.

Pile of Trash

SF DRIFT

In collaboration with Charlie Canfield, Yoshinori Niwa, and Jos Pollard, and Takuro Kotaka.

TOKYO DRIFT

In collaboration with Charlie Canfield, Tokyo Art Beat, Takuro Kotaka, and Yoshinori Niwa.

Fiery Regurgitate

MElt the Pot

In collaboration with Jerome Waag.

Pile of Trash LA

In collaboration with LACE.

Swimming Hole Directions

In collaboration with Anna Vitale.

Come Walk With Me Tour 2002-2004

Private Collection

Come Walk With Me: Purple Haze with JC

Private Collection

Rambo Mujahideen

Red & Blue

In Collaboration with Lee Walton

To Bury a Scream

Transcendental Scream

Olana, New York

Bjorn Again

Private Collections

Death Valley

Implicit Memory

Documentation of people tying their shoes in comparison to the artist's seemingly undeveloped method.

Come Walk With Me: Magic Carpet Ride

Private Collection

Pile of Trash

Trippin on e

We're Waiting with Mads Lynnerup

Private Collection

Women's World Cup Animated Drawing

Phone Tag

Collection of the Berkeley Art Mueum & Pacific Film Archive.

We're Waiting with Mads Lynnerup

Opening Reception: September 2001
New Langton Arts San Francisco, CA

Cityscapes

Collection of the Berkeley Art Mueum & Pacific Film Archive.

Seascapes

Memorial Day

Night Copier Attack

She Loves Me ... She Loves Me Not

Snowscapes

STAR WAS

Wall

washer

you lose ... try again

A Good Time to Finish Up Old Tasks

Holy Light St. Peters

Labyrinth at Chartes

Landscapes

Collections of the Berkeley Art Mueum & Pacific Film Archive and the private collections of Janine Antoni and others.

Mannequin Pis

My Bank

Collection of Will Rogan

Pantheon

Shaving

Sleep Time Lapse

Star

TEST

Touching God

We Lose Another Day

World Cup

Butt Project

Buying the News

Glove Wash

Making Bread

Step on a Crack

Street Clean